The Inte­grat­ed Research and Treat­ment Cen­ter (IFB) Adi­pos­i­ty­Dis­eases calls for appli­ca­tion for an intern­ship (6–8 Weeks). The application’s dead­line is May 6th, 2018. Appli­ca­tion Call (PDF)

We are very pleased to announce that Maria Poes­sel and Annette Horstmann, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Thomas Hum­mel (from the Smell and Taste Cen­ter), have been award­ed a research grant by the Roland Ernst Foun­da­tion, worth 108.000 €. We will explore the influ­ence of smell per­cep­tion on eat­ing behav­ior in obe­si­ty using EEG and fMRI. With this...

Our very own Lieneke Janssen has been select­ed as one of only 600 junior sci­en­tists to join the 68th Lin­dau Nobel Lau­re­ate Meet­ings (in Lin­dau) for a week in June. We are proud and con­grat­u­late Lieneke!

We are look­ing for a research assis­tant in the field of com­put­er sci­ence or relat­ed field of stud­ies. Expe­ri­ence in Word­Press and web tech­nolo­gies (HTML, CSS, JS) would be desir­able. Fur­ther details (in Ger­man) can be found in the appli­ca­tion call below. Job post­ing (PDF)

It’s 2018, and our lab is enter­ing its fifth year. The project start­ed out as a The O’Brain Project – a joint ven­ture between Jane Neu­mann & Annette Horstmann. We have had some very excit­ing and pro­duc­tive years. How­ev­er, recent­ly there have been some changes, and it’s a good time to...

We wel­come two new PhD can­di­dates in our lab. Maria Walt­mann—who grad­u­at­ed from the Neu­ro­science mas­ters pro­gram at King’s Col­lege London—started already in Novem­ber 2017. Nadine Her­zog final­ized her mas­ters pro­gram in neuroscience—at the Vri­je Uni­ver­siteit Amsterdam—with a semi-annu­al research project at the Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty in Israel. At the O’BRAIN Lab both are exam­in­ing shared and...

[UPDATE, Jan­u­ary, 19th 2018] Posi­tion closed. As of now we are look­ing for a med­ical stu­dent assis­tant. Fur­ther details can be found in the appli­ca­tion call. Please send your appli­ca­tion doc­u­ments to: Suse Pre­jawa Job post­ing (PDF)

[UPDATE: Posi­tion closed] We are look­ing for a sci­en­tif­ic researcher to join our lab. The posi­tion will be filled as soon as pos­si­ble. We are look­ing for­ward to receiv­ing your appli­ca­tions. Zur Auss­chrei­bung

Our PhD stu­dents Fil­ip Morys & Nora Mehl won the prize for best poster at the 33rd Annu­al Con­fer­ence of the Ger­man Obe­si­ty Soci­ety in Pots­dam. Fil­ip pre­sent­ed their work on “the neur­al cor­re­lates of cog­ni­tive bias mod­i­fi­ca­tion in obe­si­ty”. Con­grat­u­la­tions to both!